DHADING, Sept 23: The District Forest Office (DFO), Dhading has demolished the office building of Dhading Radio 106 MHz along with an adjoining women’s security building located inside Amarawati Community Forest in the Nilkantha Municipality on early Friday.
The DFO backed by Nepal Police (NP), Armed Police Force (APF) personnel broke down the buildings at 4 am today. Even though the DFO attempted to demolish the buildings on August 14, it failed to do so owing to the protest by the locals.
Local unit against DFO over resource extraction
No equipments and other materials could be taken out of the buildings as they were demolished by using a dozer in the wee hours today, a staff of Dhading Radio told Republica Online.
Radio Dhading 106 MHz was being operated by Gramin Sanchar Sahakari Santha.
Meanwhile, CPN-UML has taken strong exception to the demolition of the office building of Radio Dhading, dubbed it as ‘a prejudice of local administration and a mockery of the rule of law.’
